On Fri, 19 Feb 1999 14:43:54 +1300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (nikon-digest) wrote: >Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 12:18:42 -0700 >From: "Richard D Scherrer http://northernexposuresphoto.com" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: nikon-digest V4 #253 IS [v04.n255/1] >Message: 1 > >List Members, >This IS thing is really a bazaar concept indeed. A "lighter Cheaper" lense >that is actually much heavier and much more expensive (compared to other >slow f 4.5 optics which they are). A lense that is 2 stops slower that >employs expensive technology to make it operate like a lense that is 2 >stops faster...WOW that really boggles the mind !!! Actually, f/4 is only one stop slower than f/2.8. or do you use an old 300/2? >Nikon has an answer to >this lense already...it is called Fast Optics (2.8 and faster) So far as I know a 300/2.8 is a hell of a lot heavier, and a hell of a lot more expensive, than the 300/4 L IS. And a hell of a lot more difficult to handhold.
